This is one of those moments where you are seeing history being made right in front of your eyes... Tunisia , Egypt , Bahrain , Libya , Algeria , Yemen , Iran , Iraq and others all pushing various forms of popular revolts at the same time! Amazing and good to see these autocrats being thrown out of power.

The problem is they have a winner take all mentality, and this doesn't necessarily mean that there's going to be a democratic pluralist outcome: it probably means the opposite of that in many cases. If we do get pluralist outcomes, then I think the credit goes to W, and to PNAC.

HR Watch is saying 253 based on last night's numbers. They can't get in touch with reliable sources today.

Gaddafi is strange looking. He is an oddity even among dictators. In no way would I ever say he is good looking. Among other things, he ruins any looks he may have with blacker than black hair dye, horrible hair styling and bad clothes.

Reuters has a flash report quoting British foreign minister William Hague, who says he has seen intelligence that suggests Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi has already fled the capital in Tripoli and is en route to Venezuela.

If I were ever elected president the first thing I would do is put a heft tax on gasoline. Perhaps $1.50-2.00/gallon.

I would offset it with cuts in the social security payroll tax rate.

I don't give a shit about CO2. I not only don't believe that global warming is not man made, I don't believe that the data is even precise enough to tell whether we are getting warmer or cooler (Please, 0.8 deg total over 130 years? Plus or minus 4 degrees? And you are going to draw a conclusion from that?)

No, my reason is strictly political. Too much oil comes from shitholes like Venezuela, Iran, Saudi Arabia and other countries that don't like us.

Tax the Hell out of gasoline and let them see their sales slump. Since they have nothing else, they will soon be reduced to eating sand.

Some irony - Gadhafi recently gave a speech urging Palestinians to stage an uprising in Israel.

"Fleets of boats should take Palestinians ... and wait by the Palestinian shores until the problem is resolved," Gadhafi was shown saying on state television. "This is a time of popular revolutions."(quoted in Ha'aretz)

Now should probably be the time for Obama to loosen up the eco-limits on getting at our own supplies and getting them online.

Now??? G.W. missed a huge opportunity right after 9/11 when he had both parties and most of the free world on his side. He could have done a Kennedy and asked for a Apollo program-style project for energy independence that we would, now be a decade into. A DECADE INTO.

Given that he didn't and that the envirowacko faction of the already left Democrat party continue to fight tooth and nail against it, should something really shitty happen, we're going to be caught flatfooted.

Flatfooted is an excellent way to describe both this administration's reactions to events, as well as it's general level of competence.

I quit her class because she had too many exceptions to her own rules.

But, perverting her formula on my own there is could be a simple formula for revolutions

"X" dead by "Y" time frame=Dictator gone.

Now those unknown values- X, and Y-do they have to be greater or less these days?

Well externally because of the world's oil dependence the values might have to be greater, but perhaps more importantly because of technology internally maybe the values can't get as high as they use to.

XennadyThe problem of energy is political, not technical. We’ve just seen the Obama regime urinate away vast sums of wealth in exchange for approximately nothing. Imagine if he had instead spent a trillion dollars to commence building dozens of new nuclear power plants along with facilities to turn coal into vehicle fuel. Worse, he essentially shut down new drilling in the Gulf while loaning Brazil billions so they could drill off their coast. And his party has blocked blocked drilling in ANWAR for almost two decades.

Pity them. Once foreign supplies dry up or become significantly more expensive there will be hell to pay, obviously. Obama and his democrats will be stuck trying to explain to an enraged electorate just what the hell they were thinking by blocking the development of domestic energy supplies.

It won’t go well for them. People might not care that much when gas is $3-something per gallon- in the US I should add- but they certainly will when it’s $7-something or more. And the record of who wanted to do what and when is all written down in black and white.

I doubt yammering about “green jobs” and windmills will enough to save them.

The Moslem Brotherhood will take over in Egypt to the detriment of Isreal. Iran will take over in Baharain which means the loss of an important US base.

So, I am ambivilent over those events.

Libya is currently led by an anti-American, Jew hating, terrorist supporting crazy person. The fact that anti-American, Jew hating, terrorist supporting Islamists will take over means a slight improvement.

Apparently Col Q is the mid east verson of Keith Richards--old, ugly and dissolute--on the other hand he, like cockroaches, will probably survive the end of our times. Although where remains problematic.

The Moslem Brotherhood will take over in Egypt to the detriment of Isreal. Iran will take over in Baharain which means the loss of an important US base.

So, I am ambivilent over those events.

Libya is currently led by an anti-American, Jew hating, terrorist supporting crazy person. The fact that anti-American, Jew hating, terrorist supporting Islamists will take over means a slight improvement.

So, on balance, I'm happy to support this revolution.

Little Bobby thinks he's being cute and oh, so outrageous.

He also thinks being a traitor will save his sorry little ass.

Somebody needs to show him a history book, especially the part where Quislings are always the first to go to the wall.